Incident Response Contracts in Manchester

Incident Response
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 98 134
Rank change year-on-year +22 +36 -45
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 22 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.51% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 11
10th Percentile - £428 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +2.13% +12.98%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £638
90th Percentile £750 £813 -
North West median daily rate £493 £593 £625
% change year-on-year -16.90% -5.08% +26.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,249 1,588 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.49% 90.54% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,176 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £693 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 50 51
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +21.62% +13.99%
75th Percentile £59.38 £38.44 £45.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Manchester

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 3 (13.64%) Data Hub
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Ajax
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Kafka
1 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) CMDB
2 3 (13.64%) Cyberattack
2 3 (13.64%) Data Fabric
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (9.09%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) ETL
3 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 4 (18.18%) SIEM
4 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
4 3 (13.64%) Change Management
4 3 (13.64%) Data Management
4 3 (13.64%) Database Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
4 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
4 3 (13.64%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (9.09%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (9.09%) Availability Management
5 2 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (27.27%) CISM
2 6 (27.27%) CISSP
3 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) CCNP
5 2 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (4.55%) CCSA
6 1 (4.55%) CCSE
6 1 (4.55%) GIAC
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Nagios
1 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) F5
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
3 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Carbon Black
5 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.55%) Qualys
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Symantec